Saturday, October 29, 2005
The Second Amendment and Supreme Court Nominees
I like Alex Kozinski's take:
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All too many of the other great tragedies of history— Stalin’s atrocities, the killing fields of Cambodia, the Holocaust, to name but a few—were perpetrated by armed troops against unarmed populations. Many could well have been avoided or mitigated, had the perpetrators known their intended victims were equipped with a rifle and twenty bullets apiece, as the Militia Act required here. See Kleinfeld Dissent at 5997-99. If a few hundred Jewish fighters in the Warsaw Ghetto could hold off the Wehrmacht for almost a month with only a handful of weapons, six million Jews armed with rifles could not so easily have been herded into cattle cars. My excellent colleagues have forgotten these bitter lessons of history.Ultimately, that is what the Second Amendment is all about. Protection from criminals is important, and I like to hunt as much as the next guy, but the real issue is the ability to resist oppression.
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// posted by Tex the Pontificator @ 10/29/2005 11:10:00 AM 
